Her work seeks ways to address sculpture as a restless form with fleeting properties. Relating spatial and structural concerns to that elusive fabric which constitutes the melancholic nature of being, the work facilitates a place in which matter and non-matter hold hands through carefully balanced sculptural happenings...

Hinged upon an electromagnetic fabric, a number of works relate to each other through pools of radiated light, creating a place in which matter and non-matter meet up in a series of carefully balanced sculptural happenings. This community of objects is part of an ongoing series of Heat Sculptures which often appear, in Nina Canells practice, as improvised formations using neon and other debris...

Canells interest in cause and effect, and her fondness for abject materials and casual apparatusplastic buckets, plastic bags and plastic funnels; cassette players, cables, and electric fanslead to artfully informal assemblages of objects that often beget real results, slight as they may be...